glue-sticking applications?

soozievt
Tue, 15 Aug 2006 09:40:07 +0000

Highheels, my two girls did precisely this! They did paper apps for all their applications. For the little blanks for basic information (ie., name, address, parents, etc), they filled it in by hand. For any little “lists”, “charts”, short answer questions, etc., they typed them on a word processor and measured how big of a space they had to work with, formatted it however they wished, printed it out and glue sticked it into the appropriate space. In fact, they did not xerox the cut and paste app but sent it in as is. For longer questions like essays, they attached these by stapling or inserting, not glue sticking. They also attached a printed out resume. They even did the cut and paste with a glue stick for the activity chart which they created on the computer and made it fit a bit better than the way it is designed on the application. The typing of lists, and longer than a blank answers, looked neater and allowed them to make it fit as they wanted.

I believe this is totally acceptable (and yes, it has been thought of before!) and my girls’ admissions outcomes were quite positive as they are each attending one of their first choice schools (very selective ones) and had only one full rejection of their list of 8 schools. So, a paper app with typed/glue sticked short answers certainly is A OK.